permit me to start this way.

I remember watching The Lord of the Rings when I was a kid and even as an adult.

I understood and enjoyed the story, but at the same time, I didn’t quite understand the relationship between some characters.

You could tell there was a history between these characters by the way they communicated, but we don’t really know much, especially if you didn’t read the books.

Now, I’m in no way condemning the movie.

Lord of the Rings is one of my favorites of all time.

It’s evergreen.

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But just sharing how I felt like I wish they explored Aragorn and Arwin’s relationship a bit to show why their love is so strong.

All I’m trying to say is that there were gaps in the story.

And honestly, that’s how I felt when I read Genesis in the Bible, especially from the very beginning of creation to the time of Noah.

From Noah, everything kind of makes sense.

But prior to that, it was heavily summarized and we had questions with no way of being answered.

And that’s where the book of Enoch comes in.

It does a good job of filling in that gap and beautifully too, answering almost all questions that we have.

I already did a video on the book of Enoch, but after asking you guys and reading the comments, you all suggested I do a deep dive into the book of Enoch and explain it in obsessive detail.

So, here I am again talking about the Book of Enoch and leaving nothing behind.

This will be one of the most complete takes of the Book of Enoch that you’ll ever find on the internet or on YouTube.

So, buckle down and let’s begin.

[music] The Book of Enoch is the best example of a spin-off literature.

It has over 100 chapters and tens of thousands of words, and it’s based on a figure in the Hebrew Bible called Enoch, who isn’t mentioned much in the Bible.

Personally, there are two characters in the Bible that I wish I knew much about, but I can’t seem [music] to find anything about them.

One is the priest Melkisedc, who is also talked about with reverence and is important both in the Old Testament and the New [music] Testament.

And the second is Enoch.

These two characters are important, especially seeing as these two characters were very important to God and even to the fathers of old.

But somehow we have nothing on them.

Since this video is about Enoch, that’s who I will focus on.

But hey, if you are curious about MelkiseDC and you want us to do a video on him, then let us know in the comments.

And if we get enough requests, I’ll have to make a video on him.

Back to Enoch.

In the book of Genesis, Enoch only shows up briefly in the genealogy of Adam.

Through this genealogy, we can see Enoch is the father of Methuselah and many other children.

And then the [music] text just says that Enoch walked with God and then was gone because God took him.

That’s it.

There must be more to this story than meets the eye.

What does because God took him even mean? Well, early Jews and Christians were never happy with such vague Bible verses.

Which brings us to the book of Enoch, which did so many wonders explaining a lot of things.

Early Christians loved this book so much that it’s mentioned in the New Testament.

In fact, the book of Jude, which is the second to last book in the New Testament, quoted Enoch in chapter 1:9.

[music] Even the book of Hebrews talked about Enoch himself.

But even though it was very popular among Jews and Christians in the past, not many people today know about the book of Enoch.

Why is it like that? [music] And what happened that the book went into obscurity? What was written in the book that makes it controversial? And most importantly, what does it really say? Now, first of all, there is more than one book of Enoch.

And remember this because it will be important later.

There are many books of Enoch, but the term Book of Enoch is usually used to refer to the first one.

But there is a second book which probably dates back to the 1st century CE and is preserved in later [music] manuscripts written in the church’s savonic language.

Finally, there is a third book which was written in Hebrew [music] and was kept alive by rabbitic Judaism.

So there are three books of Enoch that are sectioned into [music] different chapters and we will go through all of them today.

[music] [music] Many different texts were pieced together to make the book of Enoch.

The first book of Enoch is divided into five main sections and the oldest parts of the text probably date back to the 4th or 3rd century B.

CE.

Some manuscripts of the book were written in the Ethiopian language in the 15th or 16th century.

Ethiopic also called GZ is a Seemetic language related to Hebrew, Arabic and Amharic.

It is one of the most common languages spoken in Ethiopia today.

The Ethiopian Orthodox Church uses Ethiopic for liturgies, similar to how Latin was used for Catholic liturgies or the Coptic language for [music] Coptic Orthodox Christians.

This shows that the book of Enoch has been through a lot of changes since it was first written to when our most complete manuscripts were made.

Now, don’t yawn and skip forward.

There’s a reason I’m giving you guys a quick history lesson, as it will be important later in the video.

Remember, this is a [music] comprehensive video, so all details matter.

So, that’s a quick rundown of the text.

It was originally written in Amharic, but the most complete manuscripts are written in Ethiopian.

[music] The oldest parts of the text probably date back to the 4th century BCE.

But there are also parts that were written a few hundred [music] years later.

Now that I have bored you with the cold, boring history details, let’s get into what the first book says.

The first book of Enoch is divided into five parts which are one the book of the watchers which covers the first book of Enoch [music] 1-36.

Two the book of parables which covers the first book of Enoch 37-71.

Three the book of the heavenly luminaries which [music] you can find in the first book of Enoch 72 to82.

Four, the book of dream visions which is in the first book of Enoch 83-90 and lastly five the book of the epistle of Enoch from the first book of Enoch [music] 91- 108.

So let’s start from the beginning with the book of Enoch starts with praises for God and how powerful he is.

Then by chapter 2 to 5, he starts to dive into astronomy, [music] talking about the orbits, the moon and sun, the seasons of summer and winter, and how they are set in order until we finally get to the famous chapter 6, which is what made the book of Enoch famous.

In chapter 6, Enoch talks about how the angels looked down [music] on earth and saw the beautiful daughters of men and lusted after [music] them.

They decided to leave their heavenly abode to come to earth to make [music] these women their wives.

These fallen angels were about 200.

Now they knew what they were doing was wrong.

In such wrong was an understatement.

[music] It was wrong on a cosmic scale.

This was betraying [music] everything you stand for just for sex.

I mean, that’s bad enough, but with God involved, that’s double bad.

To avoid anyone snitching or having a sudden change of heart, the 200 angels decided to swear an oath and bind themselves to this oath that no one will back out [music] and they must see to their plan becoming a reality.

When they all agreed, they descended to earth in the days of Jared on the summit [music] of Mount Hermon.

Now, if you are an avid Christian, you would start to see similarities between this story and Genesis [music] 6:1.

When human beings began to increase in number on [music] the earth and daughters were born to them, two the sons of God saw that the daughters of humans were beautiful and they married any of them they [music] chose.

Chapter 7 of Enoch also corresponds with verse 4 of Genesis 6.

The thing about Genesis is that that was it.

We didn’t get a prequel of what happened or why these sons of God would leave their abode and come to Earth.

It just ended as it started.

But with the book of Enoch, those gaps are filled.

The unholy union between these two species brought forth an unholy offspring known as Nephilim, also [music] known as giants.

Some people speculate that this could very much be the era of Hercules and the Percy’s of Greek mythology as well as other heroes of other cultures because even the Bible talks about heroes of old and men of renown.

I mean Zeus very much behaved like one of the leaders of the fallen angel in the sense that he was always sleeping around with earthly women.

And mind you, the division and border control enforcement we see today wasn’t like that during this antidoluvian age.

Now, Nephilims like Hercules were the good ones or manageable ones.

There were also the bad ones which were giants, sirens, and all sorts of evil spirits.

In such, the term evil spirit according to the book of Enoch comes from the children of this unholy union.

Both Enoch and Genesis talk about how the descent and birth of Nephilim brought about great lawlessness that [music] was never seen before which brought about the flood.

Again, the story in the Bible is summarized.

But in the book of Enoch, it is explained in great detail.

In chapter 8 of the book of Enoch, we see what brought upon the lawlessness, and it was knowledge.

The angels taught humans things that [music] were forbidden.

knowledge that we were not ready for as a race.

Now, you might ask, how is that bad? Well, that’s like giving a kid a [music] gun and expecting he won’t shoot the first thing he sees.

I mean, Hiroshima comes to mind.

Sure, humankind learned beautifification, makeup, and heck, maybe even plastic surgery back then, thanks to forbidden knowledge taught to them by these fallen angels.

But that brought about fortification and prostitution like never seen before.

Sure, they learned how to make swords [music] and knives, but that brought about warfare on the smallest of issues.

[music] And those who didn’t learn this forbidden knowledge from these fallen angels [music] perished.

They were known as the righteous and innocent ones who were massacred by their fellow humans [music] who were consumed with their power.

By chapter 9 and 10, we see the arch angels Michael, Uriel, Raphael, and Gabriel complaining to God about the lawlessness on [music] earth and how many innocents were dying from it.

God then decides to send [music] a flood to cleanse the earth of all traces.

He sends Uriel to Noah to [music] instruct him on how to build the ark.

He also lists the punishments for the fallen angels.

Aazil, who is one of the leaders of the fallen angels, would be bound to eternal darkness and his face covered for [music] eternity.

So he would never see a speckle of light again.

While most of the angels would be thrown into a prison and also in an abyss of fire, bound with chains that can never be broken forever.

their children aka the Nephilim are also not spared as they will be [music] destroyed.

By chapter 12 to 15, Enoch was sent by God to the fallen angels to tell [music] them their sentences.

When Enoch did that, the angels who were already in prison [music] were sorry for their actions and asked Enoch to intercede for them and beg God for forgiveness for them.

Enoch did do this, but God rejected their petition.

The watchers, the children of heaven, [music] I wrote out your petition, and in my vision it appeared thus, that your petition will not be granted unto you throughout all the days of eternity, and that judgment has been finally passed upon you.

Yay, your petition will not be granted unto [music] you.

And from henceforth you shall not ascend into heaven unto all eternity, and in bonds of the earth the decree has gone forth to bind you for all the days of the world.

and [music] that previously you shall have seen the destruction of your beloved sons, and ye shall have no pleasure in them, but they shall fall before you by the sword.

And your petition on their behalf shall not be granted, nor yet on your own, even though you weep and pray and speak all the words contained in the writing [music] which I have written.

” Then in chapter 17 to36, Enoch is basically given a tour of what the universe looks like.

I think he also got a description of what hell looks like, which makes it the only book to vividly describe hell.

He saw things I don’t even know how to put in words, but reading it leaves you in awe.

The only time I ever got such a feeling was when I read the book of Revelation.

And with that, that’s how the famous book of watcher ends.

Next is the book of parables.

The book of parables, which is now the first book of Enoch, 37-71, [music] is the second most important part of the book of Enoch.

There are two main ideas that run through the book of parables.

The first is an account of a person called the son of man, the elect one, the Messiah or the righteous one.

This person is divine and has always existed with God.

This figure has been hidden from everlasting [music] and revealed only to the elect, indicating Israel or more likely the faithful within Israel.

This leads to the second major theme which is the coming of this figure among men which will culminate with his enthronement [music] on the throne of the most high.

The resurrection of the dead, the judgment of the heavens and the earth and the initiation of [music] the age to come.

This already sounds like the book of Revelations [music] despite it existing way before the events of the New Testament were written.

The beginning of chapter 38 is an introduction that talks about what will happen at the [music] end of the world.

For starters, all the kings and powerful people in the world will die.

Second, the bad people who turned away from the Lord [music] of Spirits will be wiped off the face of the earth.

They will have nowhere to hide.

Then Enoch had a vision after being taken to heaven [music] in a whirlwind between the thrones of the Lord of Spirits and Enoch.

He sees a million, 1,000, 10,000 people who never sleep, i.

e.

are immortal, thanking God all the time, which kind of resembles what was said in Revelation 5:1.

[music] Then chapter 46 talks about a scene that is similar to Daniel 7.

Enoch sees the ancient of days and another being that looks like a son of man with him.

[music] The angel that acts as a guide for Enoch tells him that the son of man is the [music] same as the elect one and the righteous one that he saw before.

The rest of the second story talks about what bad people do.

Angels of punishment are [music] shown setting up a burning gorge or pit with chains and scourges of punishment.

[music] However, when Enoch asks, he is told that this lake of fire is not being prepared for the sinners [music] who live on earth.

Instead, it is for Aazil and the evil spiritual forces that rule the earth.

In the [music] last short parable, Enoch talks about what he thinks will happen to the good people after the judgment when they will no longer be harmed by evil spirits or the sinners who serve them.

Their life is called eternal.

Not just in the sense that it never ends, but in a way that makes time [music] impossible to measure.

Now, if you notice when I was mentioning some parts of Enoch, I was also showing some parts [music] in the canon Bible that correspond with the Book of Enoch.

Keep that in mind, too, because it’s important when we discuss [music] why the Book of Enoch was banned.

Next, we have the Book of the Heavenly Luminaries.

[music] Enoch shares knowledge about the movements of the heavenly bodies [music] which describes astronomy and its connection to the divine order.

It also goes into detail about a solar calendar different from the lunar calendar used by the Hebrews at [music] the time.

These chapters laid out the foundations of the anoic calendar.

[music] This could be how we ultimately made a solar calendar with its 364 days.

[music] Almost like today’s calendar, the Anakic calendar is split into four quarters, each with three 30-day months and one day in between each [music] quarter.

At the end of the book of luminaries, Enoch gives Methuselah the books that record his dreams so that they will be kept forever.

This is probably a connecting tissue that will be used to join the book of luminaries contents to the rest of the story.

Then we have the book of dream visions.

In this portion, Enoch has two visions.

The first is about the great flood.

Yeah, that flood.

And the second is about the history of Israel, symbolically represented by animals.

These visions recount the world’s history from the time of Adam to the establishment of the messianic kingdom.

But first, the flood.

When Enoch sees the coming flood in a dream, he tells his grandfather Mahalal about it.

The vision is about the coming flood in the world of the story.

Once again, the story goes further than Genesis 7, painting a picture of cosmic collapse and annihilation.

I saw in a vision the sky being hurled down and snatched and falling upon the earth.

When it fell upon [music] the earth, I saw the earth being swallowed up into the great abyss, the mountains being suspended upon mountains, the hills sinking down upon the hills, and tall trees being uprooted and thrown and sinking into the deep abyss.

Mahalel explains the vision to him saying [music] that sin is so bad that the earth must sink into the abyss, primordial chaos.

But God might let some people stay on the earth.

So he tells Enoch to pray for the earth, which he does.

The first section of the book of dreams ends and we enter the second [music] section.

For the most part, the book of dreams is made up of the animal apocalypse.

This is not some kind of animal slaughter.

Instead, it is an endofthe-world vision that shows the history of the world from the beginning to [music] the end through the relationships of different wild and domestic animals.

Just like George Orwell’s animal farm, this vision called the animal apocalypse is also shared by Enoch with his son Methuselah.

In the beginning, a bull and a cow come out of the ground, which is clearly meant to represent Adam and Eve.

After that, their sons and grandchildren, including Enoch, [music] are also called bulls.

At this point, Enoch sees a star fall [music] from heaven, which links the fall of the devil to what happened with Adam and Eve, and they’re being kicked out of paradise.

This star grabs Cain, the black bull, and starts to work through him.

Soon after, he sees a lot of stars fall to Earth.

The stars transform into bulls, but it’s a disgusting, grotesque version.

Looking like bulls, they start to mate with different cows.

Animals that are born from this unholy union are wild [music] and hungry for blood.

It’s clear that this shows the watchers downfall and the start of the Nephilim.

The seven archangels punish the fallen angels.

And then the flood comes and wipes out both evil people and the Nephilim.

and the nations are made from the bulls of Noah’s sons.

In the animal apocalypse, Shem has another white bull which stands for Abraham.

However, Abraham is the last bull mentioned in the story of how people became humans.

The last and only white bull, Abraham, stands for the type of man that began with Adam and went through the line of Seth, finishing with Noah and Shem.

Isaac, his son, is a white calf.

He has a wild boar and a white sheep as babies, which stand for Edom and Israel, respectively, which also stands for Esau and Jacob.

From this point on in the story, Israel and all of his children are shown as sheep, while the other nations animals are shown as wild beasts, many of which are hungry or looking for food.

In this part of the story, God is shown as the Lord of the sheep, which means he is the God of Israel.

What makes this amazing again is that in the Gospels, especially in the New Testament, this idea that the Israelites are sheep comes up over and over again.

You can pause the video to see the references on the screen and cross check.

But despite this corroboration, the book of Enoch is still frowned upon.

Finally, on the last day, all the books are [music] opened and judging starts.

The seven archangels help make this happen.

The devil is first judged.

The watchers then judge the other stars that fell.

Then 70 shepherds, which represent 70 nations from around the world, will then be judged.

Those who are judged are all thrown into a [music] fire pit.

Then Enoch woke up from his dream and thanked God for this second vision.

He [music] then started to cry as he remembered the first vision and how the flood destroyed everything [music] and it ended.

Lastly is the book of the Epistle of Enoch.

This final section includes a series of encouragements to the righteous and [music] warnings to the sinners.

It contains revelations about the future, including the resurrection and [music] the final judgment.

The main part of the Epistle of Enoch is Enoch telling his [music] family about another vision he had because he was told he was going to heaven.

In what is now chapter 91 of the [music] first book of Enoch, the main points of this teaching are laid out.

Enoch tells his children to walk in and do what is right.

This is especially important because the world [music] is very evil.

And Enoch’s children will live their lives in the middle of it.

However, there are two things that the righteous can [music] do to feel better during this time of judgment.

First, God will give each good person a guardian angel to keep them safe from the evil in the world.

Second, [music] they will be raised from the dead, no matter how long they sleep in the grave, even if it’s a very long time.

After that, he talks about what happens to the good and bad people while they sleep in the grave before the rising.

For a good person, their soul will live with God until it is time for them to rise.

If someone dies in their sin, but their souls will go to shol, where they will be punished forever in chains and flames.

This particular chapter helps give an insight into life after death.

At the end of the main text of the first book of Enoch, it says not to change or add to Enoch’s work or believe those who do, which again corresponds with Revelation 22 18-19.

And with that, the first book of Enoch ends.

Now, while most people are familiar with the first book, not everyone knows much about the second or third book.

We do have the second and the third book of Enoch, which I will get into in a moment.

And trust me, the story listed there is also riveting [music] and different from what is in the first book of Enoch.

Spoiler alert, Enoch himself transforms into an angel.

Normally I should focus only on the first book, but hey, I did promise a deep dive.

So here you go.

The second book of Enoch was discovered in the early 19th century.

There are two versions of this book.

One is shorter, another longer.

The longer one is believed to have suffered from Christian interpolations and interference.

So, I prefer to focus on the one that was preserved better.

Genesis 5:21-26 tells us when Enoch was born and when he was taken [music] to heaven, which is before the flood.

The second book of Enoch adds to this story.

The main idea of the book is that Enoch gradually ascends through different worlds, changes into an angel, and gains access to the secrets of creation.

200 years after his son Methuselah was born, Enoch was lying in bed and noticed that two angels were standing at the head of his bed.

The sight of the two angels scared Enoch, but they calmed him down by telling him that he would be taken to heaven that same day.

The angels told him to tell his family that they would miss him and that no one should look for him until God brings him back to Earth.

Enoch did what he was told and also told his family not to worship idols because those who did would die the same way the idols did.

And with that, his journey to heaven begins.

When he left his family, he was taken on the wings of an angel and was brought to the first heaven and was placed on the clouds.

When he looked higher, he saw the ether.

The angels made him see the sea above which was greater than any sea on earth.

He was also shown 200 angels who ruled the stars.

He saw the treasure houses of snow and dew and how clouds come and depart.

He was shown the guardian angels of those treasure houses and how those treasure houses open and shut.

Then he was taken to the second heaven where angels showed him darkness that was worse than the darkness on earth.

He saw angels that were prisoners [music] hanging there while they waited to be judged.

Those angels who were imprisoned looked dark and were [music] crying.

When he asked the angels guiding him why those angels were locked up, they told him that they were locked up because they had broken God’s rules and were doing what they pleased.

After that, he went to the third heaven [music] and saw paradise and the tree of life.

Some Jewish works believe that this is where the garden of Eden is located in heaven.

He saw 300 angels watching over the garden and praising God.

The angels told him that this was the place that had been set aside for good people who would turn away from sin, make good decisions, feed the hungry, clothe the naked, raise the dead, help hurt children, walk blamelessly before God, and serve him alone.

This permanent inheritance [music] was set aside for them.

While a terrible place full of pain, darkness, and [music] gloom was shown to him to the north of this garden.

There were also merciless angels in that place who had weapons as well as a river of fire.

The angels said that this was the place that had been set aside for people who disobeyed God, practice sin against nature like sodomites, use magic, enchantments, and witchcraft.

Idol worshippers brag about their bad deeds, steal, lie or slander, are angry, hateful, and bitter, fornicate, murder, and steal souls.

This place of everlasting torment is prepared for the bad people.

After that, the angels took him to the fourth heaven where he could see the sun and moon rise and set.

He saw the sun’s circle and wheels as well as how stars and angels move around it.

He saw other flying parts of the sun as well like phoenix’s and chalky which are also called saraphim [music] and cherubim.

In the second book of Enoch, these beings are described with feet and tails in the form of a lion and a crocodile’s head.

Their appearance is imperled [music] like the rainbow.

Their size is 900 measures.

Their wings are like those of angels.

Each has 12, and they attend and [music] accompany the sun, bearing heat and dew.

In this version of heaven, Enoch also saw the Lord’s hosts singing praises to him.

[music] When he was taken to the fifth heaven, he saw countless soldier angels called Gregori, also known as watchers.

They were of human appearance, but their size was greater than that of giants.

Their faces were withered [music] and they were silent.

When Enoch looked around and saw that there was no worship of God in this heaven, he asked the angels what was going on.

He was told that those angels were the same kind that listened to Satan, their master, and came down to earth to marry humans.

Their actions ruined the earth by [music] breaking the law and mixing with other people and unholy offspring were born from them.

Because of this, God judged those who had fallen very harshly, which made the Gregori cry.

After that, he was taken to the [music] sixth heaven where he saw seven groups of beautiful angels.

There were no differences between them in how they looked, behaved, or dressed.

Those were the ones who were learning how the celestial objects work as well as about the government of the world.

At that [music] time, those archangels were more powerful than angels.

They were in charge of the seasons, the years, rivers, and the sea.

And they wrote down all the souls of people and what they did.

Then he was taken to the seventh heaven, where he saw a very bright light and [music] armies of fiery archangels.

He also saw Cherubam and [music] Saraphim, thrones of many eyed ones, nine units of the army, stations of light and forces [music] that existed outside of time and space.

As a normal human reaction, [music] he started shaking with fear at what he saw.

The guardian angels beside him took him and told him not to be afraid.

They also showed him God’s [music] throne from afar.

It was shown to him that God’s throne was in the 10th heaven.

The angels left him at this [music] point because they were told to.

Enoch got scared when he was left by [music] himself.

But soon Gabriel the archangel came along, picked him up, and brought him before God.

Then Enoch saw the eighth heaven which changes the seasons, the amount of rain and the amount of humidity as well as the 12 stars [music] that make up the circle of the open sky.

Besides that, he saw the ninth heaven which is home to the 12 stars.

When he got to God’s throne in the 10th heaven, he fell down in front of him.

God told him to stand up.

After [music] that, his clothes turned into the clothes of glory, and God’s oil [music] was put on him.

After being changed in this way, he saw that he looked like one of God’s beautiful ones.

Enoch then was given the work of a scribe to record the souls of [music] mankind and the places prepared for them for eternity.

And he was also taught many secrets of heaven and earth.

God explained to him how he created heaven and the earth and all the things that are [music] in those places.

God told Enoch to tell all the people on earth what he wrote so that everyone would know who he was.

God said that false seeds had grown on the land that doesn’t fear him or bow down to him.

Instead, this seed worships dead gods and refuses him.

It has filled the world with lies, crimes, horrible desires, and all kinds of dirty wickedness.

God then told him that he had chosen to flood the earth to destroy it because people were so bad.

He also said that another seed would grow from the last seed, but it would happen a long time from now.

The works of Enoch would be given to that seed, and that seed would pass those works on to the next generation, which would be even more blessed by them than [music] the first.

God gave Enoch 30 days to stay on earth and get those works known to people.

After 30 days, he would be taken back to heaven.

After that, Enoch was sent back to [music] Earth.

When he was back on earth, he invited all his children to come and hear what he had to say.

He explained to them how he [music] was made familiar with the workings of the heavenly objects and other matters to do with heaven.

He saw the guardians of hell who were like great serpents having the eyes of fire and sharp teeth.

Enoch told his children that they could receive eternal [music] life if they were patient and humble for the rest of their lives.

As soon as Enoch was done speaking, [music] the ground went dark and Enoch was taken to the highest heaven.

After Enoch was taken back to the skies, his family built an altar there and sacrificed animals.

They had a feast and were happy that God had shown them such a great sign and given them his works to pass on to future generations.

And with that, the second book of Enoch ends.

In this one, we get to see Enoch again, but this time [music] as an angel.

Enoch is taken into heaven and is transformed into a very powerful angel called Medatron.

This Enoch whose flesh was turned to flame, his veins to fire, his eyelashes to flashes of lightning, his eyeballs to flaming torches, and whom God placed on a throne next to the throne of glory, received after [music] this heavenly transformation, the name Medatron.

I know, I know.

The first time I heard it, I instinctively thought of Transformers, too.

But this was way before Transformers.

So maybe the author copied from the book of Enoch.

Enoch is once again told the secrets of the universe and how it all came to be.

The story about valuable metals and how those who use them or make gods out of them will not get anything in return.

Now, during my research, I found out that Medatron is actually an archangel that little is known about, which makes the third book of [music] Enoch quite bold.

Because what the third book of Enoch did was say that Medatron was Enoch transformed.

Medatron is said to be second only to God in wisdom, strength, and glory.

[music] He is the scribe who records the sins and merits of all beings in the book of life.

He is a guardian of heavenly secrets and God’s mediator with humanity.

Medatron is said to be an incredibly large being with a million eyes and mouths.

He has six [music] serif wings, two to cover his face, two to cover his feet, and two to fly.

He is said to have a voice that resembles the destruction of several stars.

In such, that’s how the third book of Enoch ends.

The narrative concludes with Enoch being completely transformed into the angel Medatron, taking his place in heaven as a powerful celestial being, essentially becoming enthroned and given dominion over the angelic host, marking the culmination of his ascension and transformation into a heavenly figure.

And with that, the book of Enoch from the 1st to the 3 ends.

Wow, what a story, right? One thing I can attest to with the Book of Enoch is that it certainly fills whatever gaps or answers any questions one may have regarding the events of creation or the angels that slept with women or the story of Nephilim.

In the Bible, it was all summarized, but in the book of Enoch, it’s explained in detail.

I actually went into reading the book of Enoch as a critic, or rather taking it with a pinch of salt.

But I won’t lie, it’s very, very convincing, which made me ask, why was this book banned? Most of what is in Enoch in a way corresponds with other scriptures in the Bible, which is why I added the Bible text that corresponds with Enoch earlier on the screen.

And it’s not just one text, but multiple texts from different chapters and different authors.

and gospel.

Which makes me ask again, why was it banned? In such for the first 300 years after Christ, a lot of people knew about the book of Enoch and read the book, including the apostles of Jesus Christ.

[music] It was very popular and even seen as scripture, which is why it is found in one of the oldest Bibles around, which is the Ethiopian Bible.

The first book of Enoch is [music] seen as scripture for the Ethiopians, while the rest of the world deemed it bad, despite it having answers to some questions we have.

As we’ve seen [music] in this video, these stories and the way they were written down in the first book of Enoch shaped large parts of the New [music] Testament like St.

Matthew’s Gospel, the Johannine Corpus, the Petrine epistles [music] and Jude.

At the very least, it should be seen as an apostolic apocryphen as St.

Nikaperose I patriarch of Constantinople said in the 9th century.

[music] It is apostolic because it writes down traditions that were part of the teachings of the apostles.

As St.

Ireneas [music] of lions and others who were directly linked to that preaching by time and spiritual fatherhood testified.

It is an important part of the culture that the Bible, [music] especially the New Testament, was shaped by.

Now, I totally understand the second and third books being banned because it was clearly the work of someone.

Yes, you heard right.

It was not Enoch that wrote the books.

it was someone else.

Back then, a lot of rabbis wrote their own version of the scripture.

Now, that wouldn’t be a problem except that it wasn’t divinely inspired and it was mostly about what they thought was right and wrong, which the second and third books have a heavy influence on.

So yeah, even though the second and third book of Enoch really sounds like it’s from Enoch, and even though it kind of continues the story, it’s all, should I say, fake.

The third book was written by Rabbi Ishmamail.

Look at it like a fanfiction.

Some fanfiction can be as good as the source material, and some are even better than the source material and become a part of the lore.

That’s what the second book and third book were like.

But the first book has merit.

The oldest source I could find that didn’t believe in Enoch was written by a man named [music] Rabbi Shimon Bar Yai.

As an early follower of Rabbi Akiva, Shimon lived in the first few hundred years a Rabbi Akiva, Shimon wanted to keep Judaism alive by keeping the books that Jews called scripture in order.

It was also Shimon who said that Genesis 6 was no longer about angels.

And he used this to say that the book of Enoch was not a biblical book.

Oh yeah.

Apparently Genesis 6 wasn’t about angels but was about men.

And to be specific, the generation that came [music] from Cain since Cain was cursed, while the righteous generation came from Seth.

So instead of angels sleeping with the daughters of men, it’s Cain’s descendant sleeping with the daughters of Seth, [music] the righteous one.

Honestly, this sounded to me like someone was desperately trying to cover something.

I mean, Cain’s son, Lamech, wasn’t described as a giant.

He was just a normal violent man like his father.

And I don’t think there’s any population between two human species that could birth a giant the size of a building.

Maybe a giant as big as Andre the giant, sure, but not as big as the Empire State Building.

Also, they even said Enoch wasn’t taken up to heaven, that he died.

basically saying the word God took him meant he died and went to heaven and not necessarily him be flown to heaven despite it being said in Hebrews 11:5 that by faith Enoch was taken from this life so that he did not experience death.

He could not be found because God had taken him away.

It’s almost like some people were working overtime to discredit and remove the book of Enoch.

And I guess it’s [music] because of the story it portrays.

If you read the book of Enoch, it shows a sort of not so [music] perfect story of angels.

Sure, humans are not perfect, but angels leaving God to willingly disobey him and come down is almost like a heresy.

It doesn’t paint this picture perfect governance up there.

If angels could disobey God, what’s to say they can’t do it again? like these questions though thought-provoking is really borderline heresy saying you don’t trust God’s style of governance.

The book of Enoch raises uncomfortable questions about the nature of free will, the role of divine beings and the boundaries between heaven and [music] earth.

These themes while powerful may have been considered too difficult or troubling for inclusion in the Bible.

The theme of the book of Enoch dealing with the nature and deeds of the fallen angels so infuriated the later church fathers that one Philrius actually condemned [music] it openly as heresy.

Nor did the rabbis decide to give credence to the book’s teaching about angels.

Rabbi Shimon Bar Yoshi in the 2n century AD pronounced a curse upon those who believed it.

And in a way, I can’t believe I’m saying this.

I do understand the emission of it.

If you are not strong in the faith, it can really be a disturbing topic for [music] you.

I remember someone making a case against God because of God’s approval of slavery in the Bible.

Of course, it was taken out of context, but that’s just an example of how people can twist things.

Anyway, in the 4th century, Christians started to believe the same things [music] that these Jews did in the 2n century.

The first thing they did was accept their later Hebrew manuscripts, which were different from the Greek [music] version that the Jews had made 280 years before Christ was born.

In doing so, they also began to limit the books they believed in, which led to the Protestant Bible with its 66 books.

Second, Christians began to agree with these Jewish readings in the second century.

Another way to look at it is that angels were no longer God’s kids in Genesis 6.

All these led to the book of Enoch being lost to most of the known world for millenniums.

There’s no exact date as to when this happened or who encouraged the book to be destroyed, but ultimately the book was completely lost for a long, long time.

[music] It wasn’t until the late 1700s that James Bruce, a Scottish adventurer, found the book in Ethiopia.

At that time, there were rumors that a book of Enoch was in Ethiopia, a book older than the Bible, which made James Bruce curious enough to look into [music] these claims.

It turned out it was true.

A book that probably disappeared in the 4th or 6th century was finally discovered in the 17th century.

He would bring three Gaz copies of the Book of Enoch with him around 1773.

And it wasn’t until the early 1800s [music] that the Book of Enoch was fully translated into English.

Now, at this point, the book of Enoch was thought to be a fake by Christians because it had so many references to the New Testament and predictions about Christ.

Like, you can see the similarity that it was almost certain that someone with New Testament knowledge could write this.

Don’t get me wrong, other prophets [music] from the Old Testament kind of talked about the future things that would happen in the New Testament, like the prophet Isaiah, but it’s nothing like the first book of Enoch.

The only logical explanation was that [music] it was fraud.

Plus, it didn’t help matter that there was a rave of fake books like [music] Enoch that was also in circulation.

So, no one knew which was real and fake, [music] and people just avoided it altogether again.

But things changed in 1946 and 1947 when several copies of Enoch were found in the caves of Kuman, which are also known as the Dead Sea Scrolls.

I did a video on the Dead Sea Scrolls, and you should definitely check it out to balance your knowledge.

Now, there are a lot of reasons why the discoveries of these scrolls are [music] so important.

Number one, it showed that the book of Enoch was written at least 300 years before Christianity.

Number two, it showed that the Ethiopians had kept a copy that was pretty correct and hadn’t been changed or altered by the bureaucracy of man.

Number three, these texts showed that the ancient Jews did in fact have a book of Enoch, [music] which was regarded as scripture until the council of Leotaa deemed it wrong and controversial.

Enoch’s inclusion in the Dead Sea [music] Scrolls clearly shows it was of major importance to first century [music] believers.

And this is amplified by it being in the Ethiopian Bible since it is an actual 1,500year-old Bible written on goat skin [music] between 500 to 600 AD and preserved in the arid African climate.

It is the best evidence [music] we have of an uncorrupted Bible.

I hate to be the one to say it, but I think it was removed just because of how controversial it was.

I mean, it’s known for a fact that many church fathers from Marcion in the year 150 A to Martin Luther in the 1600s tried to get rid of certain books in the Bible for various motives.

Luther tried unsuccessfully [music] to get the book of James removed, which is a great call to faith and works.

Marcion was happy with his edited version of Luke and the Pauline epistles.

He didn’t want anything [music] else.

Because of things like this, there is a good chance that some bishops and popes during the dark ages were able to use their power and influence to get rid of books like Enoch, Jubilees, and Jasher, or heck, any book they didn’t like.

The actual King James also did something similar, even going as far as imprisoning people who didn’t read his version of the Bible.

To be honest, and this is my personal belief, and I could be wrong, so take what I say with a grain of salt, but seeing the watchers of angels descend to Earth to teach man things makes sense when you relate it to other culture all over the world.

Almost all cultures, probably eight out of 10, have stories of beings coming to Earth to interact with humans and most importantly teach humans [music] things and give them knowledge.

Now some cultures call them gods, some aliens, but the central theme of beings coming down from the sky is there.

These plot points can be found in stories attributed to the Greeks, Romans, Egyptians, the Inuit, Maya, Cherokee, Toba, Lepta, Vogle, and the Celtic, as well as within the ancient legends of at least 600 other cultures.

Not only that, but almost every culture has a story of great sin and lawlessness that brought forth the flood.

Also, almost every culture has the story of how a man and his family were saved.

It’s all there.

What’s interesting is that if you read the book of Enoch [music] and then study the story of Anunnaki, these two really come together.

My theory could be that when these 200 angels came to Earth, they lied to humans and [music] told them they came from another planet and called themselves the Anunnaki or whatever.

And since they were really angels and had crazy superpowers and abilities, it wasn’t hard to get humans to start worshiping them as gods.

I mean, if we can worship other humans that can die, how much more a being that is bigger [music] than humans? If they had come down to earth and told the truth that they were actually angels who defied a much bigger and more powerful god because they didn’t want to serve humans, the humans most likely [music] wouldn’t have accepted them.

Now, some critics will say these cultures like Mesopotamia predate the Jewish culture, especially if you check our comment section, and they are right.

And that’s one thing the Bible never shy about.

[music] It tells the story as it is.

Yes, there were other cultures thriving and worshiping gods even before the country of Israel was formed.

But that doesn’t mean that the story in the Bible was false or God wasn’t present.

[music] If anything, it was because of these sinful cultures that Abraham, the father and founder of Israel, was called out of his own country to go to another land.

So yes, semantically speaking, these cultures are older [music] than Israel even before it was formed.

So it might look like the Bible copied [music] from them.

But in reality, the Jews aka Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob existed side by side with these cultures.

And just like these cultures did as [music] it was the trend of that time and since there was no cloud storage, they also recorded their communion with God as a way of passing the information to the next generation.

For example, Abraham went to Egypt and interacted with the king of Egypt and it is postulated [music] that while there Abraham shared his knowledge and helped with the science and astronomy of the Egyptians.

Unfortunately, we can’t confirm that because one thing again the Bible does is to summarize [music] things.

So, it is not clearly stated.

But hey, it has to take something extraordinary for the king of Egypt to recognize you and give you a position of influence in his country, especially if you’re a foreigner.

The only theory that makes sense to me is that the people saw these angels as gods and also recorded their experiences, too.

just like people of the Bible did.

So, the Bible isn’t a lie by this [music] notion, which should make the first book of Enoch scripture.

Plus, even though it talks about angels, it still follows the theme of Christian faith in talking about how powerful and majestic [music] God is and how the righteous will be rewarded for their good deeds and how the evil ones will be punished [music] for eternity.

So, what gives? Why so much hatred towards the first book of Enoch? So why wasn’t the book added? Well, the short answer was that it was never in the Bible.

The longer answer would be to talk about why it was never added to the Bible in the first place.

The reason why the book of Enoch isn’t allowed in the Bible is because of three things.

One, pseudapigrial.

two inconsistencies.

Three, didn’t pass the rules.

Now, before I begin, I will concentrate only on the first book of Enoch.

The second and third books have been proven to be pseudopigraph with a human bias of time incorporated into it and are said not to be divinely inspired.

So when I mention the book of Enoch, just know I am talking about the first book of Enoch, [music] the one divided into five parts.

The book of Enoch with its five separate sections [music] was all written by different authors plus segments from the book of Noah thrown in [music] and till today no one knows who wrote the book.

The authorship is unclear and it is attributed to Enoch, the great grandfather of Noah.

But it was not written by him.

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